The document outlines Quebec's Plan Nord, a 25-year, $80 billion project to develop northern Quebec. It will harness the region's potential in energy, mining, forestry and other sectors through infrastructure like roads, ports and a railway. The plan aims to create 20,000 jobs annually and ensure benefits for northern communities and all of Quebec through sustainable development that also protects the environment and indigenous cultures. A new government corporation and $2.1 billion initial investment will coordinate projects in the first five-year action plan.

2. The Plan Nord
Building Northern Québec Together
The Project of a Generation
Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum-
February 23rd, 2012
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3. An overview
• Québec the largest
province in Canada
• Area
1.6 million km2
• 7x size of the UK
• Population: 8 million
• 23% of Canadian
population
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4. Plan Nord : The territory
North of 49th parallel
• 72% of Québec’s
geographic area
• 1.6% of population of
Québec
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5. The Plan Nord: A space to be
developed
• Huge potential for the Native and northern communities
• 32 communities in James Bay,
Saguenay and Côte-Nord regions
• Over 120 000 inhabitants
• Four Aboriginal nations in 31
communities:
– THE INUIT
– THE CREE
– THE INNU
– THE NASKAKPI
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6. The Plan Nord: An innovative
approach based on partnership
• The Plan Nord: result of over 60 meetings
involving 450 people who agreed on the approach
– Representatives from the government, communities,
private sector, institutional sector and environmental sector
• The Plan Nord is a project that will span 25 years and
comprise five five-year action plans
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7. The Plan Nord: The vision
An exemplary sustainable development project that
integrates energy, mining, forest, bio-food, tourism and
transportation development, the development of wildlife,
environmental protection and the preservation of
biodiversity.
It will foster development for the benefit of the
communities concerned and Québec as a whole, in a spirit
of respect for cultures and identities.
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8. The Plan Nord: The objectives
• To ensure socially responsible, sustainable
development, the Plan Nord will seek to:
1. ensure community well-being and development
2. harness Northern Québec’s enormous economic
potential
3. make Northern Québec accessible
4. protect the environment
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9. Harness Northern Québec’s
enormous economic potential
• The territory that the Plan
Nord covers has outstanding
potential for development in
the following sectors:
– energy – wildlife
– mining – tourism
– forestry – bio-food
• The development of Northern
Québec will engender
investment, jobs and other
benefits in other regions.
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10. The Plan Nord: 3 500 MW
of renewable energy
• 3 000 MW of hydroelectricity
• 300 MW of wind power
• 200 MW from other renewable
sources
─ Underwater generators
• All told:
The plan reflects our determination
─ 25 billion $ CAD in investments
to make Québec the world leader in
clean energy
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11. Mining development is central
to the Plan Nord
• More than twenty new
projects will be under
development in the
territory that the Plan
Nord covers in the
coming years, which will
generate over 10 billion
$ CAD in investments Raglan Mine
and create 4 000 jobs.
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12. Mining development is central
to the Plan Nord
The territory that the Plan Nord
covers produces all of Québec’s:
- Nickel,
- Cobalt
- Platinum group metals
- Zinc
- Iron ore
- Ilmenite
Significant portion:
- Gold
- Lithium
- Vanadium
- Rare-earth
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13. A crucial forest
environment
• Harvesting of the boreal
forest north of
49th parallel accounts
for over 50% of wood
harvested in Québec
and creates 15 000 jobs.
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14. Make Northern
Québec accessible
• Integrated development of
the transportation network
• Establishment of
partnerships with investors
that require transportation
infrastructure
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15. Make Northern
Québec accessible
• Integrated development must include an
array of infrastructure:
– roads
– a landing strip
– electricity
– a railway and transfer station
– a sea port and transfer station
and storage facility.
• Objective: Satisfy the needs of several
users to reduce their footprint in the
territory.
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16. Make Northern
Québec accessible
• Projects are already under way or impending:
– upgrading of
northern airports
– construction or rebuilding of
four major roads:
– example of the
Monts Otish road
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17. Protect the environment
• A fragile, changing
territory
– Unique biodiversity: highly
varied wildlife and intact
forests
– Perceptible climate
change
• Each development project
will hinge on principles of
sustainable development
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18. Protect the environment
Two key commitments
• 50% of the territory that the Plan Nord covers will be
devoted to purposes other than industrial ones,
environmental protection and safeguarding biodiversity
– The government will adopt legislation following
consultations
• Round out the network of protected areas to reach
target of 20% by 2020
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19. A government corporation to
carry out an ambitious plan
• Establishment of the Société du Plan Nord, with a
mandate, in particular, to:
– coordinate public investment in strategic infrastructure and
in the social sector
– coordinate the implementation of projects included in the
first five-year action plan
– negotiate financing packages in respect of the projects for
which it is responsible
– offer local and Aboriginal communities guidance and
support to carry out their own community and social
development projects.
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20. The Plan Nord financial
framework
• Establishment of the Fonds du Plan Nord, announced in
the 2011-2012 Budget
• Realization of the first five-year action plan:
investments totalling 2.1 billion $ CAD
– 1.2 billion $ CAD for infrastructure
– 382 million $ CAD for socioeconomic measures
– 52 million $ CAD for the operating budget of the Société du
Plan Nord and investment prospecting
– 500 million $ CAD allocated to Investissement Québec for
equity participations
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21. Benefits for all Quebecers
• Over the next 25 years, the Plan Nord will engender the
following benefits:
– a minimum of 80 billion $ CAD in private and public
investments and 14 billion $ CAD in tax revenues for the
government
– 20 000 jobs, on average, created or maintained each year,
equivalent to 500 000 man-years
– the investments will add 162 billion $ CAD to Québec’s
GDP, a significant impact.
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22. For more information
Learn more at :
plannord.gouv.qc.ca/english/
Development of infrastructure projects of
The Plan Nord, Montreal, April 4-5th 2012 :
serieplannord.com